Hex Minesweeper

Hex Minesweeper is made for players who enjoy playing minesweeper or minesweeper-like online puzzles. It is a free puzzle game that runs in your browser with nothing to install. The field is built from hexagons instead of squares, so every tile has six neighbours and not eight. The rules are the same ones as in classic Minesweeper, but the board reads differently and therefore the logic is a bit different than in the classic game.

How to Play

• A player taps any tile to open it. The first tap is always safe.
• A number on a tile tells how many of the six tiles around it contain hazards.
• Opening a tile with no hazards next to it opens the whole empty area at once.
• Right click or press and hold with the mouse (or long tap on a phone or tablet) puts a flag on a tile that the player thinks hides a hazard. Flagged tiles cannot be opened by accident.
• Opening every tile without a hazard wins the game.
• If the player opens a hazard, the game is over.
• Mochi sits in the middle of the top bar. A tap on him deals a new board, at any moment, also in the middle of a game.
• The difficulty name in the top left corner opens the list of the three sizes. Picking one starts a new board right away.
• The question mark in the top right corner opens the rules and the speaker next to it turns the music and the sounds on/off.

Reading the Board

The counter in the top left shows how many hazards you have not flagged yet, so it goes down every time you place a flag. The clock in the top right starts on your first tap.

Sometimes a small chain appears under a number. It means the hazards that number is counting are all next to each other in one unbroken run, with no gaps between them. It is a small clue, but it is needed to match the difficulty of Hex Minesweeper to the difficulty of a classic one.

Puzzle Difficulties

• Easy: 60 tiles with 10 hazards. Usually it takes less than a minute to solve.
• Normal: 150 tiles with 30 hazards. Takes around up to 5 mins to solve.
• Hard: 300 tiles with 65 hazards. It is a proper sit-down puzzle.

The board also turns to fit desktop or mobile screens. On a phone it stands tall and on a wide desktop screen it lies on its side, so tiles stay big enough to tap.

No Guessing

Every Hex Minesweeper puzzle can be finished by logic alone. In classic Minesweeper a game can reach a position where two tiles are equally likely to hide a mine and the player just has to pick one. That does not happen here. On a Hex Minesweeper grid each number covers six tiles instead of eight, so the clues overlap less and random hazards on the puzzle board would force a guess even more often. This game never deals such a bad situation, because every puzzle that the player sees is generated on the first tap and checked by a solver, and a layout that cannot be finished by reasoning is discarded. If the player loses, it is because something was missed, not because the board was unfair.

After Win

When the field is clear, the player gets a short summary: time, how many taps were used, the fewest taps the puzzle could have been solved in, and the player’s efficiency. There is also a Share button to send a result to someone and let them try to beat it.

Features

• Free to play in the browser, no download and no account.
• Hexagon minesweeper grid with six neighbours per tile.
• Three difficulty levels, from a quick break to a long puzzle.
• Every board is solvable without guessing.
• First tap is always safe.
• Works on desktop and on mobile.
• Mochi from Hex Sense keeps the player company and starts a new board whenever the player taps on him.

Play Hex Minesweeper free and see how many taps you will need.